RTFM RATM?

Those meant read the fucking manual and rage against the machine. Dude summer is gonna be done so soon, well maybe not soon more like a month more aprox. I’m so damn bored that this is pretty much all I can do. When school hits or when I get my job I’m sure to put up actually interesting blogs, but untill then your gonna have this for now. OMG my mom bought this lint roller, but its like smaw as hell. Its a mini lint roller, seems like a travel kind of one, but damn its teeeeny. I know I was gonna make my blogs more visual, but its hard because there isn’t anything that would exactly match this. uhh.. Im listening to this song by 36 crazy fist thats called “Skin and Atmosphere” and its pretty sikk. Now I’m listening to.. “Tailgunner” by Iron Maiden, this is a pretty damn bad ass song too.

haww man.. I shouldn’t even post this, and I’m probably not but whatever. Wow last night (this morning) I  was playing Battlefield Bad Company and yeah I was pwning noobs and all, but that wasn’t why I brought this up. After I was done, my arm hurt a lot, like aching for some reason. Then when I tried to sleep it was still pretty bad, to where I couldn’t sleep almost. Yeah I got sleep, so I thought I wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore, but once I woke up it was still sore. IDK what it was, but jesus it sucked. It was probably from the dumb arm rest on the chair I was sitting on, and I clearly stated before I sat on it, “man I hate sitting on chairs that have arm rest, they don’t give you room at all!” to my brother. The chair must of heard me :/. One time I remember when I used to hardcore computer and not get off for 6+ hours other than to get food, drinks, take a shit or whatever, this sort of happened then. It wasn’t my arm though, it was my wrist, so I thought I had carpal tunnel. Didn’t want that, and especially the way I use a mouse (Claw style btw), I makes it worst since its not ergonomically good. I read somewhere that GOOD pro gamers use claw, but it seems like a lot of people I know uses claw anyway…  seeing that you get more control if you play High sensitivity on a mouse with claw seems like a win to me. Well thats pretty much all I got, so yeah.

Xbox360 supreme commander does not suck

I had a view on my blog by someone searching on google if supreme commander for the 360 sucks, and it doesn’t. I was sceptical, so  I rented the game and played through the tutorial and two missions from the UEF campaign and its far from horrible. The game isn’t really pretty graphically, but its gameplay is stunning. What I love about the game is that it has a lot of variation to it, not just hyrdalisk and mutalisk from Starcraft, but different tiers, or.. idk how you say it.. “better versions” of units. It takes place in many different environments like snowy mountains, tropical Islands, alpines, all that good stuff so its not bland at all. The maps are pretty big from any other RTS on a system I’ve played, which is good, because when your controlling 100+ units at a time, this space is very well needed.

“how could you effectively micromanage 100 or more units at a time?” well this question is easily answered. As any RTS, you can assign control groups to units. This comes handy because obviously you can’t exactly drag a box around all your units like on a computer as fast. Since we’re on the controls, the controls do take getting used to. I’m not saying its clunky or ridiculously hard to work, but there’s so many options that they give you a little visual aid to which of the main buttons do with, this being activated in the options of course.

 There is a little stutter as the camera pans across the map, but nothing impossible to handle like Battle For Middle Earth 2 for the xbox 360. the Strategic zoom is really good, though there is a known bug where you can hear all your units when your fully zoomed out. It gets annoying, but turn down the FX volume in the options and your ready to roll. The developers know of the bug and should be patching anytime now, so you don’t have to deal with it for the rest of the time you play it. The game looks.. well plain. I’m not surprised because not a lot of RTS’s look like Gears Of War anyway. This shouldn’t steer you away from this game, because it really is a game you should at least try. I didn’t try multiplayer yet, but I don’t plan on trying it anytime soon, there’s so much to learn from this game its not even funny. It isn’t a Civilizations in terms of depth, but then again that game isn’t RTS.

 

Don’t listen to what the big reviewers say, it really is a good game. I’ve only played it for 3 hours, but even then I had no lockups. Some claimed it got really choppy down to a slide show almost, again, I can’t say much because I didn’t have a big amount of units. People did say that they ran 4 Free for all’s and it barely lagged or slowed down, barely meaning not a slide show or gamebreaking. I can only say the graphics aren’t good, but thats all I can say thats bad at the moment.

If I had to rate this game, I would give it an 8/10.

+
good controls
deep
nice cinematics
sound effects

-
Sound bug
graphics somewhat